Mention of deprecated symbols in 101 samples

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Issue type
Documentation
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Start with the 101 samples page, especially the repositories_clone_progress example, and compare its symbols with the libgit2 reference search. Investigate whether deprecated names can be detected reliably from the deprecated header. Done means the affected samples are identified and a maintainable approach for handling them is documented.

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Description

Hello,
I am starting to learn the libgit2 API and in the first example I wanted to try I stumbled upon git_indexer_progress: https://libgit2.org/docs/guides/101-samples/#repositories_clone_progress.
Unfortunately, this does not appear anywhere in the reference: https://libgit2.org/libgit2/#HEAD/search/git_transfer_progress.
Further investigation showed that it is simply because it is a deprecated name of git_indexer_progress.

So, I will definitely do a PR for this particular instance, but it would be nice to be able to catch all such symbols automatically if possible.

Do you think there would be a reliable way to do so, or we should try to parse the "deprecated" header ?

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